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OTHER NUMBER 18 SHRINES:
Juuhachi-gou's Place of Being is your basic #18 shrine, with a focus on the author's own fanfiction and fanart (she quite likes the Juuhachi x Trunks pairing). This site's been around for a long, long time, since when I first became an obsessed fan of #18 myself.
This is by far, my favorite site about 18, mainly because of the plethora of doujinshi scans and wonderful Juuhachi x Krillin fanart. There is also a ton of not-too-well-known info about 18, Krillin, and her twin #17 that us English-speaking fans might not know.
Femme Fatale
I personally don't know for myself, but other 18 shrines have called Femme Fatale the first on the web. It was a very good shrine, but the webmistress had called a hiatus some time ago, unsure if she should bother to return (this is why we shouldn't steal other people's pictures, my friends...). But she has, and says that Femme Fatale is undergoing a major revamp and WILL return! Word is BOND.
18's Shrine
18's shrine has been around as long as I can remember Family Photos and JPOB being around, though it never seemed to have as much content as the others. However, recently there's been new, elegant layout, and I can't wait to see what will develop. ^_^
Juuhachigou's Cabin is a very well-thought out site with a nice, super-blue layout. The first 18 shrine (and only till mine) to discuss Juuhachi's fashion sense! Whee!
Broken Link! - This site WAS a recent and fantastic new site dedicated to Number 18, run by a male fan...but apparently his time for the domain ran out and he's not sure if he wants to start up his site again. So find his email address and email him if you want it back up!
The newest #18 shrine around with a lovely color scheme and a banner that makes me jealous!! Lists fights, abilities, movies, and has animated gifs. Well, that's not all, but still, those are the more noteworthy parts. :D
The K18 Campaign
A new website dedicated to Krillin and 18 as a couple. Looks very promising and already has a handful of members, myself included. Seems like this is going to be the place to go for K18 fan fiction!
#18 RELATED WEBPAGES:
DBZ American Soundtrack - Android 18: The Android Sagas
Right here is the place to buy the American soundtrack CD for the Android Saga. It has all the background music created by Bruce Faulconer, as well as a very interesting song sung by Meredith McCoy, our heroine's voice actor, from the point of #18. A little pricey for a CD, but still good stuff if you're a fan. Sample tracks available at the site, I might add.
Nan Desu Kan 2001 Junior Model Awards
Broken Link! - You'll find here that an absolutely stunning model of #18 was submitted to the 2001 Nan Desu Kan junior model contest and won. The link is broken but its maker, Nicole Haynie, contacted me saying she would provide the site with some good pictures later!
Darkstar DBZ Model Kits
Here you can buy your own model of #18 to paint. The model is available for about 20 bucks, and while you're there, take a look at the interesting paint job they gave her...
#18 mini resin bust by Palisades
Around February of last year, I think, Palisades (I think) put out a line of high-quality, resin mini-busts of some Dragonball Z characters. Only 2500 were made of each, cept for Trunks who got 5000 cause he's a fine hunk of man...but I uh digress. Anyway, if you want a mini-bust, the place to look is ebay, which is what you will be taken to by clicking this link. Personally, though, I think the other model is much better looking...
Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database
Here is the page for Miki Itou, the Japanese voice actress (seiyuu) for Juuhachi! Whee! She's got a TON of roles, such as Gally from GUNNM/Battle Angel Alita, A-ko (I believe) from Project A-ko, and countless other roles in popular series.
Crystal Acids presents...
And here is the informative page about Meredith McCoy's voice acting accomplishments. She happens to be the English voice actress behind #18, her debut role. She has since been in Fruits Basket and Yu Yu Hakusho, amongst other things.
MeredithMcCoy.com
This is Meredith McCoy's professional webpage (as opposed to a personal one with a blog or some crap). Find news, voice clips, a "forum" tag board, select photos, and the blond gal's resume all right here.
Web chat with Meredith McCoy
Here's an interesting web chat/interview with Meredith McCoy about Dragonball Z and her role as #18. I'm not sure who is conducting the interview, but this was the only site I found the chat log on, which is sadly, rife with obnoxious pop-ups. But if you want Ms McCoy's email or fanmail adress, this is the place to find it. Interestingly enough, she doesn't even know #18 is a cyborg! I will be writing her...
Little Saiyalings
One of the best pieces of DBZ fandom around, I think. Little Saiyalings is basically a huge series of short, continuous comic strips involving all of our favorite DBZ characters. Yes, that includes our lovely Number 18. Many hilarious moments between her and the rest of the cast, especially Krillin. ♥!
DBZ C18 Fan Club!
If you have a Yahoo! ID (or don't - making one is pretty fast), you can join this little fan club devoted to Cyborg 18. Maintained by some very dedicated folks. I joined a little while a go. Now you do it!
Cyborg Haven
If you have a Live Journal, you can join this community dedicated to the artificial humans of Dragonball Z. Right nice place, if I do say so myself. :)
Minas Amroth
CGI versions of Juuhachi all OVER the damn place!! Short haired, long haired, but always lookin so fine. In fact, recently Teller has posted some short clips of his 18 actually moving. Looks VERY cool.
OTHER DBZ RELATED PAGES:
Juunanagou's Temple
One of the best and longest-running #17 shrines around. Period.
I've always liked this site very much. Even though it's outdated and the webmaster doesn't even remember the password to take it down, it's good stuff. It focuses solely on the relationship between 17 and 18 as interpreted by the web master. Some people don't agree with it, but I like the interpretation very much. A great site.
The Shrine of Android 16
Broken Link! - Out of the trio, #16 (Juurokugou) is the only android...and he has his very own shrine now! Huzzah!
World of the Artificial Humans
Gone? :( - The Jinzouningen no Sekai section of the Elegant Despondence website had some quality information. Absolutely fantastic analyses and information (though brief) of the twins. Stuff so good I had to slap it on my own site. Hopefully this site will return!
Daizenshuu EX
This site has been around for-evar, already well-established when I was starting to get into Dragonball Z back in '98/'99. It only makes sense to link to them, a wonderful (and probably one of the only credible) general-information DBZ site. And with no lame banners! My <3 for Daizenshuu is great. If you're new to DBZ, coming back to an old favorite, or have always been a fan, you should definitely stop by. ^_^
Temple O' Trunks
Even though he's a brat, Trunks plays an important role in the life of future #18 (a terrible one, but we won't focus on what kind of relationship here). Another fantastic DBZ site that just don't stop. Even if you're not a fan of that lilac-haired half-saiyan, Temple O' Trunks is always worth stopping by.
OTHER QUASI-RELATED SITES:
This is a shrine to fellow artificial human, R. Dorothy Wayneright from The Big O (a great series). I've been a big fan of this site forever...a unique layout with beautiful fan artwork (buy Mara's prints!) and a ton of information. You should visit this site. <3
The First Real Cyborg????
Yep. We now officially have an actual cyborg among us. Here is the article from March 2003 about it, from CNN.com.
The Cyborg Manifesto
Read it and decide for yourself...
Human Void
I stumbled onto this site while browsing through my stat tracker stuff. This happened to be quite a good read and covers not only cyborgs, but robots and androids. I quite like this site, thus the link. Check it out. ^_^
Man and Machine
This is another interesting read regarding cyborgs, and another link I found browsing through my referrer stats. Anyway, it's an essay written by this guy, Robert John Licuria, in 1999 and it's good...so read it.
A.L.I.C.E. bot
Here's your chance to talk to a "chatbot" with what I can only assume is real artificial intelligence. The conversations you can have with Alice are amazing, if not at least a little creepy. :D
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
It seems that despite my Cyborg or Android essay, lots of people still have the wrong idea about what a cyborg is. VegettoEX of Daizenshuu EX showed me this and suggested I toss this to the confused fans, and also print out for the panel on artificial humans I'm having at Anime Boston. Not a bad idea, I think. :)
battleangel.com
An absolutely stunning site dedicated to Yukito Kishiro and his cyborg epic Battle Angel Alita. Read the manga. Visit the site.
ROBOTGIRL.net
Full of news reports about and links to other websites with "robotic female characters, cyber fashion, and other related topics." Promising site!
MY OTHER SITES:
My first domain, and writing-only site of sorts, with spoken word mp3s and other ill ish. Right now it's waiting to be updated. Bionic!
My amazing and completely bionic online boutique! For the cyborg in you!.
My Favorite Artificial Humans
A soon-to-be completed project, I assure you. A mini/mega shrine of sorts to artificial humans of all kinds. ^_^v
If the actual people IN 260 cared, this would be a pretty good, interactive site. But it's not. However, I'm not about to take down this shrine/community site dedicated to the best graduting class from Central High School in Philly cause its members are lazy slackers. No way.
Orange Dynamo?!@!
Care to read all about my personal life like a psycho? Then feel free to visit!
If you have a live journal...and if you like to wear big, eccentric, or just hott earrings in general, then join genki_ear, a community dedicated to earrings. Party on!
The Empire of New Vejitasei
For a long time, during the hey-day of my role-playing on AOL, I intended to create a website for my guild/forum/storyline. Finally, I get around to making a site, but nobody is around to really rp with anymore...at least not enough people that we need a website. But I kept this site up anyways, despite that the EoNVS guild and RoA forum is just a small group of us nowadays. We have no real desire to recruit, but why not keep the site up for the hell of it? So...yeah.
Ahh, you already want to get going? Well, then, here are some related links that I frequent often - other shrines to 18, her brother, and all else I find suitable. But first, maybe you want to link back to me? Well, damn, feel free to take a banner!
Please link to: http://www.lovelycyborg.comNow, you can take a banner, but make sure you save it to your own server and don't end up direct/hot linking me! Only losers and humans hot link. And make sure you link to "http://www.lovelycyborg.com/" or you'll face a terrible terrible death at the hands of a million robot monkeys!
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OTHER NUMBER 18 SHRINES:
Juuhachi-gou's Place of Being is your basic #18 shrine, with a focus on the author's own fanfiction and fanart (she quite likes the Juuhachi x Trunks pairing). This site's been around for a long, long time, since when I first became an obsessed fan of #18 myself.
This is by far, my favorite site about 18, mainly because of the plethora of doujinshi scans and wonderful Juuhachi x Krillin fanart. There is also a ton of not-too-well-known info about 18, Krillin, and her twin #17 that us English-speaking fans might not know.
Femme Fatale
I personally don't know for myself, but other 18 shrines have called Femme Fatale the first on the web. It was a very good shrine, but the webmistress had called a hiatus some time ago, unsure if she should bother to return (this is why we shouldn't steal other people's pictures, my friends...). But she has, and says that Femme Fatale is undergoing a major revamp and WILL return! Word is BOND.
18's Shrine
18's shrine has been around as long as I can remember Family Photos and JPOB being around, though it never seemed to have as much content as the others. However, recently there's been new, elegant layout, and I can't wait to see what will develop. ^_^
Juuhachigou's Cabin is a very well-thought out site with a nice, super-blue layout. The first 18 shrine (and only till mine) to discuss Juuhachi's fashion sense! Whee!
Broken Link! - This site WAS a recent and fantastic new site dedicated to Number 18, run by a male fan...but apparently his time for the domain ran out and he's not sure if he wants to start up his site again. So find his email address and email him if you want it back up!
The newest #18 shrine around with a lovely color scheme and a banner that makes me jealous!! Lists fights, abilities, movies, and has animated gifs. Well, that's not all, but still, those are the more noteworthy parts. :D
The K18 Campaign
A new website dedicated to Krillin and 18 as a couple. Looks very promising and already has a handful of members, myself included. Seems like this is going to be the place to go for K18 fan fiction!
#18 RELATED WEBPAGES:
DBZ American Soundtrack - Android 18: The Android Sagas
Right here is the place to buy the American soundtrack CD for the Android Saga. It has all the background music created by Bruce Faulconer, as well as a very interesting song sung by Meredith McCoy, our heroine's voice actor, from the point of #18. A little pricey for a CD, but still good stuff if you're a fan. Sample tracks available at the site, I might add.
Nan Desu Kan 2001 Junior Model Awards
Broken Link! - You'll find here that an absolutely stunning model of #18 was submitted to the 2001 Nan Desu Kan junior model contest and won. The link is broken but its maker, Nicole Haynie, contacted me saying she would provide the site with some good pictures later!
Darkstar DBZ Model Kits
Here you can buy your own model of #18 to paint. The model is available for about 20 bucks, and while you're there, take a look at the interesting paint job they gave her...
#18 mini resin bust by Palisades
Around February of last year, I think, Palisades (I think) put out a line of high-quality, resin mini-busts of some Dragonball Z characters. Only 2500 were made of each, cept for Trunks who got 5000 cause he's a fine hunk of man...but I uh digress. Anyway, if you want a mini-bust, the place to look is ebay, which is what you will be taken to by clicking this link. Personally, though, I think the other model is much better looking...
Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database
Here is the page for Miki Itou, the Japanese voice actress (seiyuu) for Juuhachi! Whee! She's got a TON of roles, such as Gally from GUNNM/Battle Angel Alita, A-ko (I believe) from Project A-ko, and countless other roles in popular series.
Crystal Acids presents...
And here is the informative page about Meredith McCoy's voice acting accomplishments. She happens to be the English voice actress behind #18, her debut role. She has since been in Fruits Basket and Yu Yu Hakusho, amongst other things.
MeredithMcCoy.com
This is Meredith McCoy's professional webpage (as opposed to a personal one with a blog or some crap). Find news, voice clips, a "forum" tag board, select photos, and the blond gal's resume all right here.
Web chat with Meredith McCoy
Here's an interesting web chat/interview with Meredith McCoy about Dragonball Z and her role as #18. I'm not sure who is conducting the interview, but this was the only site I found the chat log on, which is sadly, rife with obnoxious pop-ups. But if you want Ms McCoy's email or fanmail adress, this is the place to find it. Interestingly enough, she doesn't even know #18 is a cyborg! I will be writing her...
Little Saiyalings
One of the best pieces of DBZ fandom around, I think. Little Saiyalings is basically a huge series of short, continuous comic strips involving all of our favorite DBZ characters. Yes, that includes our lovely Number 18. Many hilarious moments between her and the rest of the cast, especially Krillin. ♥!
DBZ C18 Fan Club!
If you have a Yahoo! ID (or don't - making one is pretty fast), you can join this little fan club devoted to Cyborg 18. Maintained by some very dedicated folks. I joined a little while a go. Now you do it!
Cyborg Haven
If you have a Live Journal, you can join this community dedicated to the artificial humans of Dragonball Z. Right nice place, if I do say so myself. :)
Minas Amroth
CGI versions of Juuhachi all OVER the damn place!! Short haired, long haired, but always lookin so fine. In fact, recently Teller has posted some short clips of his 18 actually moving. Looks VERY cool.
OTHER DBZ RELATED PAGES:
Juunanagou's Temple
One of the best and longest-running #17 shrines around. Period.
I've always liked this site very much. Even though it's outdated and the webmaster doesn't even remember the password to take it down, it's good stuff. It focuses solely on the relationship between 17 and 18 as interpreted by the web master. Some people don't agree with it, but I like the interpretation very much. A great site.
The Shrine of Android 16
Broken Link! - Out of the trio, #16 (Juurokugou) is the only android...and he has his very own shrine now! Huzzah!
World of the Artificial Humans
Gone? :( - The Jinzouningen no Sekai section of the Elegant Despondence website had some quality information. Absolutely fantastic analyses and information (though brief) of the twins. Stuff so good I had to slap it on my own site. Hopefully this site will return!
Daizenshuu EX
This site has been around for-evar, already well-established when I was starting to get into Dragonball Z back in '98/'99. It only makes sense to link to them, a wonderful (and probably one of the only credible) general-information DBZ site. And with no lame banners! My <3 for Daizenshuu is great. If you're new to DBZ, coming back to an old favorite, or have always been a fan, you should definitely stop by. ^_^
Temple O' Trunks
Even though he's a brat, Trunks plays an important role in the life of future #18 (a terrible one, but we won't focus on what kind of relationship here). Another fantastic DBZ site that just don't stop. Even if you're not a fan of that lilac-haired half-saiyan, Temple O' Trunks is always worth stopping by.
OTHER QUASI-RELATED SITES:
This is a shrine to fellow artificial human, R. Dorothy Wayneright from The Big O (a great series). I've been a big fan of this site forever...a unique layout with beautiful fan artwork (buy Mara's prints!) and a ton of information. You should visit this site. <3
The First Real Cyborg????
Yep. We now officially have an actual cyborg among us. Here is the article from March 2003 about it, from CNN.com.
The Cyborg Manifesto
Read it and decide for yourself...
Human Void
I stumbled onto this site while browsing through my stat tracker stuff. This happened to be quite a good read and covers not only cyborgs, but robots and androids. I quite like this site, thus the link. Check it out. ^_^
Man and Machine
This is another interesting read regarding cyborgs, and another link I found browsing through my referrer stats. Anyway, it's an essay written by this guy, Robert John Licuria, in 1999 and it's good...so read it.
A.L.I.C.E. bot
Here's your chance to talk to a "chatbot" with what I can only assume is real artificial intelligence. The conversations you can have with Alice are amazing, if not at least a little creepy. :D
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
It seems that despite my Cyborg or Android essay, lots of people still have the wrong idea about what a cyborg is. VegettoEX of Daizenshuu EX showed me this and suggested I toss this to the confused fans, and also print out for the panel on artificial humans I'm having at Anime Boston. Not a bad idea, I think. :)
battleangel.com
An absolutely stunning site dedicated to Yukito Kishiro and his cyborg epic Battle Angel Alita. Read the manga. Visit the site.
ROBOTGIRL.net
Full of news reports about and links to other websites with "robotic female characters, cyber fashion, and other related topics." Promising site!
MY OTHER SITES:
My first domain, and writing-only site of sorts, with spoken word mp3s and other ill ish. Right now it's waiting to be updated. Bionic!
My amazing and completely bionic online boutique! For the cyborg in you!.
My Favorite Artificial Humans
A soon-to-be completed project, I assure you. A mini/mega shrine of sorts to artificial humans of all kinds. ^_^v
If the actual people IN 260 cared, this would be a pretty good, interactive site. But it's not. However, I'm not about to take down this shrine/community site dedicated to the best graduting class from Central High School in Philly cause its members are lazy slackers. No way.
Orange Dynamo?!@!
Care to read all about my personal life like a psycho? Then feel free to visit!
If you have a live journal...and if you like to wear big, eccentric, or just hott earrings in general, then join genki_ear, a community dedicated to earrings. Party on!
The Empire of New Vejitasei
For a long time, during the hey-day of my role-playing on AOL, I intended to create a website for my guild/forum/storyline. Finally, I get around to making a site, but nobody is around to really rp with anymore...at least not enough people that we need a website. But I kept this site up anyways, despite that the EoNVS guild and RoA forum is just a small group of us nowadays. We have no real desire to recruit, but why not keep the site up for the hell of it? So...yeah.
